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Rusi Modi
Rusitomji Sheriyar Modi
Born: 11 November 1924, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Died: 17 May 1996, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Major Teams: Parsees, Mumbai, India.
Known As: Rusi Modi
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium
Test Debut: India v England at Lord's, 1st Test, 1946
Last Test: India v Pakistan at Bombay, 3rd Test, 1952/53
Career Statistics:
TESTS
(career)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 10 17 1 736 112 46.00 1 6 3 0
O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 5 1 14 0 - - 0 0 - 2.80
FIRST-CLASS
(career: 1941/42 - 1959/60)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100s Ct St
Batting & Fielding 105 154 12 7529 245* 53.02 20 29 0
R W Ave BBI 5 10
Bowling 1226 32 38.31 5-25 1 0
- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.
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A wristy strokeplayer, Rusi Modi combined elegance with a
voracious appetite for runs. Tall and slim, he was the first
batsman to score 1000 runs in a season in the Ranji Trophy
and his feat of getting 1008 runs (201.00) in 1944-45
remained unsurpassed till WV Raman amassed 1018 runs, 44 years
later. The previous season, he scored a record 215 for Parsees
against Europeans in the Bombay Pentangular. He remains the
only batsman to score five successive hundreds in the Ranji
Trophy. He followed this remarkable run with a brilliant 203 not
out in the third and final `Test' against the Australian Services
team at Madras in 1945-46.
Amidst high expectations, Modi toured England in 1946 and in
that wet summer performed commendably getting 1196 runs (37.37).
He played with reasonable success in all three Tests. He missed
the tour of Australia in 1947-48 due to ill health but touched
superb form in the series against West Indies the following
season, scoring 560 runs, which remained the Indian record till
Vijay Manjrekar surpassed it in 1961-62. This run included his
only century in Tests, 112 at Bombay. Thereafter his career was
anti climactic for though he played against the two Commonwealth
teams and once each against England in 1951-52 and against Pakistan
the following season, he was never again the commanding figure at
the crease. He however continued to play with much success for
Bombay and in the Ranji Trophy he scored 2696 runs (81.69) with
ten hundreds. In a two decade long first class career he scored
7509 runs (53.63) with 20 centuries. He died following a fall at
the Brabourne stadium. (Partab Ramchand)
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